Do my customers need an app?
No. They scan the sticker on the table and your menu opens in whatever browser their phone already has. No download, no account, no login.
You just used OrderLah 👋
That ordering page
can be yours.
If you arrived here from the bottom of a stall's ordering page, that is OrderLah. It is QR and web ordering for small food businesses — the customer orders on their own phone, the ticket lands on the kitchen screen, and the shop keeps working when the internet does not.
14 days free · no card · nothing to install
Three questions, answered plainly
Do I need new hardware?
An Android tablet is enough to start — the one at your counter becomes the hub. A kitchen screen and a second till are tablets you probably already own, joined over your own Wi-Fi and approved with a tap.
What does it cost?
A licence per outlet, per year, in your own currency — the current figures are on the pricing page, read live from the price list we actually charge from. No percentage of your takings, ever.
How it works
Five steps. That's the whole setup.
No integration project, no cabling, no consultant. If you can print a piece of paper and charge a tablet, you can run this.
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Step 1
Put up your QR
One at the counter, one on every table, or both. OrderLah generates them for you — table numbers included, so the kitchen knows where the food goes.
Makan Corner
Scan to order 📷
TABLE T08
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Step 2
Customer scans
The phone camera does it. The menu opens in the browser they already have. Nothing to install, no account to create, no password anybody will forget.
orderlah.app · opening menu…
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Step 3
Customer orders
Items, variants, add-ons, quantity — and dine-in or takeaway when you've turned those on. Extra chicken, no cucumber, less spicy: it all comes through in writing, so nobody mishears it.
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Step 4
You hear "DING!"
The hub plays the new-order ringtone and the chit appears on the board. It is designed to be hard to miss across a hot, noisy kitchen — because a missed order is a refund and an argument.
NEW ORDER · #0088 · T08
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Step 5
Cooking → Ready → Done
One tap per stage. The board is the single source of truth for the counter, the kitchen and the display screen at the same moment — no shouting the same order twice.
New 1
#0088 T08Cooking 1
#0087 TakeawayReady 1
#0086 T03
See it before you decide anything.
The demo is the real flow with pretend data — order from a table, watch it hit the kitchen, move it to ready. No sign-up, no email, no salesperson.
The customer side
Another app?
No thanks.
Your customer is hungry, standing up, and holding a phone with 3% battery. They are not downloading anything. They scan the QR code and your menu opens in the browser that is already on the phone.
To be straight about it: OrderLah does have an app — the one you run the stall on, on your own tablet. It's the ordering side that needs nothing installed.
- App Store
- Play Store
- Create account
- Forgot password
- Update app
- Scan
- Order
- Eat
Offline-first, honestly explained
Wi-Fi having a bad day?
Your stall shouldn't.
Most ordering systems are a website with your menu on it: the shop is a thin client, and when the line drops, so does lunch. OrderLah is built the other way round — your tablet is the server. It holds the menu, mints the order numbers and stores every order on the device itself.
- Customer, anywhere
- Internet (optional)
- Your hub tablet
Ordering from outside the shop is an extra you switch on. The hub dials out to a relay itself — no VPN, no router settings, nothing for you to keep alive.
- Internet — gone
- Your hub tablet
- Counter, kitchen & customer phones on the shop's own Wi-Fi
The QR at the table still opens the menu, the counter still sends orders, the kitchen board still moves, and the takings are still recorded. Only ordering from outside the shop waits for the line to come back.
Because "sorry, system down" shouldn't be part of the menu.
Start free
Fourteen days free. No card.
Every new outlet gets a full 14-day trial — the whole product, not a cut-down version — with nothing to cancel at the end of it. What a licence costs afterwards is on the pricing page, in your own currency, taken straight from the price list checkout actually charges.
- We look at how your stall actually runs before touching anything.
- You get the setup that fits — QR only, counter only, or the lot.
- What you tell us changes the app. That's the point of talking to us early.
Tell us about your stall and we'll show you the relevant setup. One conversation, at a time that isn't your lunch rush.
Tell us about your shop
Takes about a minute. Fields marked are required — everything else helps us skip the obvious questions.
Next: start your 14 days 🎁
Your reference is —. You can wait for us to call, or start the trial now and have the shop taking orders this afternoon.
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Questions people actually ask.
Does my customer need to install OrderLah?
No. They scan the QR code and your menu opens in their phone's browser. No app store, no account, no password. The OrderLah app is the one you run the stall on.
Do I need Wi-Fi?
You need a local network, because that is how phones and counter devices reach your hub. Either the shop's Wi-Fi router, or the hub tablet's own hotspot if there's no router.
You do not need a working internet line for that. The internet is only involved if you want customers ordering from outside the shop, or for things like cloud backups and updates.
What happens if my internet goes down?
Service carries on. The hub tablet is the server: it holds the menu, mints the order numbers and saves every order locally. Counter devices, the kitchen board and customer phones on your own Wi-Fi keep working exactly as before.
What stops is ordering from outside the shop, which needs the line. It picks up again when the internet does.
Can I use more than one device?
Yes. One tablet is the hub. Other devices join it by scanning a code and take a role: counter, waiter's phone, kitchen display, customer (TV) display, self-order, or an owner's device for checking in.
The device picks its own role when it joins, so you don't have to decide in advance which code is for which tablet — hand out one code, set up whatever's in front of you.
Can I mark food sold out, or pause ordering?
Both, and both take one tap. Sold out removes an item from every device at once. Pause stops new customer orders while you catch up, and tells the customer clearly instead of leaving them wondering.
Can customers order from the table?
Yes. OrderLah generates a QR code per table alongside a general one for the counter or a poster. An order from a table QR arrives with the table on it, so the food gets to the right place.
Can I use it for takeaway only?
Yes. Dine-in, takeaway and delivery are three switches. Turn off what you don't do, and customers only ever see the rest.
Can I set up my own menu?
It's yours to edit. Categories, items, prices, photos, variants (roasted or steamed) and add-on groups (extra egg, no chilli). Change it at 6am without asking anybody's permission.
Photos are taken on the tablet and tidied up on the tablet — the colour cast neutralised, the shadows lifted, a bit of bite added. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and it invents nothing: it is the plate you photographed, looking like it did in real life.
I also get GrabFood and Foodpanda orders. Any help there?
Yes — they land on the same board as everything else, so the kitchen works off one queue instead of one screen per platform. Point the tablet at the platform's order slip and it reads the items off it; anything it gets wrong you fix before it goes to the kitchen, and you can always key one in by hand.
OrderLah is not plugged into those platforms and doesn't speak to them. Reading a slip you already have is not the same as an integration, and we won't call it one.
Can it handle SST, GST, service charge and receipts?
Yes. Set your tax rate and registration number, add a service charge if you take one, and choose whether the payable total rounds to the nearest 5 cents. Receipts can be printed, shared, or scanned off the screen by the customer.
At the end of the day there's a closing screen: what came in since the last close, split by cash, PayNow, card and the rest. Snapshot it and the next day starts from zero.
Where is my data stored?
In the usual hawker setup: on your hub tablet, in a local database that is encrypted at rest. Orders, menu, staff and takings live there. No order reaches OrderLah — not summarised, not counted, not anonymised.
If you'd rather have a server, two other arrangements exist. Run your own and the order book stays in your database — no order reaches OrderLah, same as the tablet setup. Choose OrderLah Cloud and it lives in ours instead. That is the whole difference, and it is worth settling before you start.
Does OrderLah process payments?
No, and it's important to be clear about that. OrderLah records how a bill was settled — cash, PayNow, card terminal, comp, partial payment, refund — as a history you can audit later, and it can show your own PayNow, DuitNow or Touch 'n Go QR on screen for the customer to scan.
The money itself moves through the arrangements you already have with your bank or wallet provider. OrderLah never sits in the middle, and takes no cut.
What does it run on?
An Android tablet as the hub — 8 to 11 inches is the sweet spot, and the screens are laid out for exactly that. Counter and owner devices can be Android or iOS phones and tablets. Customers just need a phone with a browser.
How much is it?
Not settled yet, so there's nothing honest to quote. OrderLah is at the pilot stage — tell us about your stall and we'll talk about it properly rather than putting a made-up number on a website.